Personal Pronouns "Seeing scenes gives rise to feelings" Magical Moments Magical moments being there with you like an inscription The story is written in and under the beautiful world of fantasy Happy face that floats organically mechanical into the white storm Hello face full of fire life you cannot erase rings on the surface of water He cools his wings flapping Happy — for L. and G. Over the highway tomorrow You think you're something else She doesn't look happy I throw a prayer somewhere It doesn't care Ringing quiet bells Maybe he belongs because he never left So overjoyed and alive A celebration of living And open for business But we don't make the rules Eyes that know despair Lay their sorrows here Dreaming someday they'll be free Endless patient summer Do what we tell you — Let us out of here In the here and now! Welcome to the home of the sea Father's Day 6/21/87 I thought you know me Beneath the shield It takes a lot of good natured self-control First it runs hot, then it runs cold Wrecking the dreams I've known It takes cheerful resignation and hardened humility I'd help her out if I were naked The moon in the willows leaves the path behind Is it possible to stay alive? Pleasure always turns to fear Please me, liquor It feels like a break Love bandits calling from earth Open the highway to you Above the Clouds — for Aunt Sid The purpose of my life is gone above the clouds Nothing there above the clouds No one dies above the clouds I keep craving for you to forgive me above the clouds The hard rock pattern of your heart above the clouds The masterpiece above the clouds Serenity above the clouds Read it with your heart aloud above the clouds My tears were beginning to show above the clouds What could I do above the clouds More than I know above the clouds Steering into everyday above the clouds Making me fit above the clouds What is means above the clouds Lone Ghost Why was I born? Why am I living? Where am I headed? Who am I fooling? Inside a cold and empty heart I dwell. I can barely carry on. But I don't want to leave it at that. I have an idea! It's like a little dream of mine. It's a dream that pervades the universe. It just popped into my mind. I want to think about it a while... Please, I need some guidance. What's painful to remember is hard to forget. I'm being constricted by something. Just when you think you're safe and secure Trouble walks in the door. "It's all right if my clothes aren't new if my heart is true." Yes, I thought that! These are my belongings. I try my best to succeed. Call me. I'm listening. Like a lone ghost I wave. Mother's Day - for Linda, May 12, 1991 I love to call you baby You make the wrong things right You make me want to shine You make me smile With a lump in my throat and an arrow in my heart Gradually you make me fish My love comes up I could do so much. I wish to go on With you in my arms Trivial, poetic, even sometimes melancholy All the way, come what may Calm in the half-light Of a new birth! You Are the Soul of the World You are the soul of the world A quiet reflective beginning (I'll consult that later) I want you to want me and I want me to want you As if we were never apart A theme that is evergreen With love as the answer We will meet at another time A time for the dream city In the street of lost time I've reached the end of the road For good or bad At least I can do something Motivated by what Infinite childhood delight? Quit dreaming and start beaming Better than we ever did A small sea of tears I want to make into a positive experience Somnolent Forces You've put your heart into the same marble room as those ashes! Thanks for a bad thing Go down in flames Stoke the furnace with green Fresh and rainy music Go to sleep, everything is all right I awake and find you gone It happened in my dreams I want to redeem what I have In my heart like a bowl Swing I'm for breaking down all barriers, I'm for letting everything swing! I want to understand what I have got to do We've walked down this beach a thousand times Nothing here lasts long The same old shit I'm for breaking down all barriers, I'm for letting everything swing! You can cry and weep and pray Seek the holy rapture I didn't mean to desert you I'm headed for a breakdown every day Are there any further revelations forthcoming? We've walked down this beach a thousand times You can cry and weep and pray My heart is sore, sick and sore You're near and I'm far away I didn't mean to desert you "Look what you're trying to do!" I'm headed for a breakdown everyday The same old shit My heart is sore, sick and sore Now everything's in my mind "Look what you're trying to do!" I wash my hands of it You’re near and I’m far away A simple-minded insistence Are there any further revelations forthcoming? Like poking your finger Into the chest of America My heart is sore, sick and sore Now everything's in my mind I'm for breaking down all barriers, I'm for letting everything swing! Broken Experience It's a beautiful day It's like a little paradise down here Birds sing out of tune The whole damn thing isn't real Some people never know how to feel All these voices crying out to be heard! Heart Every year means another try, Another melody in June. I laughed but that didn't hurt. It's only love that keeps me wearing this shirt. Nothing you can do you can afford. Springtime is just a day away. I look at you and I see The passionate eyes of May. I'm following a program of my own. Every dog must have a bone. Every heart must have a home. Pieces of My Life Skimming along the surface is a wonderful way to be A climax is being reached without calculation There's just you, barely turning I feel like a hot potato I don't know what to say Anybody listening? You don't know how to please Don't connect the two Forgive tomorrow. It's a dream Everything's falling apart in our hands. Nobody understands you when you feel bad and you don't like yourself. Mother's Day Poem — for my mother 1993 Even though you weren't there I was where I am It was hard to find me Even over the days It was hard to interpret The various ways Just like today Is here before you know it Or tomorrow Is gone Standing here all alone While I'm far away Knowing you love me I can dance to the pain of life I prayed unto the night It wasn't very clear Clouds above Emerged Every place we go And then disappeared Paradise in Blue I want you the way you want me For the moment at last The wind grows louder You're mine and I was alone Suddenly a bell chimes What a small and tinny sound I barely have the spirit for anything Why torture me? It goes on The music in my day What a fruitless thing I've got So far away It was too terrible to contemplate Me and my heart is the only sound Of course, it's relaxing Wouldn't you Like to take a ride on some famous machine And fall off laughing? Sonnet (The heart turns to its moorings) The heart turns to its moorings And I'm not afraid The best way to stop suffering is never to start We treasure these moments Guaranteed to shine for life They can't ever see the future Bread and peas All over it While the wind wails in the corner to survive the hell you plan for me A careless journey out to sea Brave the waves The Real Thing I'm getting closer to the real thing I can feel it coming Feeble flutterings Alas, it's here I'm not ashamed I can be myself Then why must I be alone? We'll find one another on the shore someday She made a mighty sign Lines are burning I was walking on the moon last night You gather your footsteps A new day is rising Glad all over I'm here at last In the distance Yet still alone Circuitous Routes (Sonnet) Only in dreams could it be this way I know it's right Why must I live or die My heart still knows some fear I've been patient with you Have you been patient with me? Lead me by the nose Down in some dim cafe We'll sip a little glass of wine And remember the day We were born And died As if we could say We were alive My Pale Way I hope you're not planning on breathing tonight. This is the thing I look on the face of the dark on the wall I want to cry my heart out But I know I'll fail. I want to tell you everything That I know in a whisper That perhaps you'll understand When you smile and anoint my cheek With tears. Forever up on the hill The sun comes up. I think about you In my pale way. Double Sonnet (Love is so forgiving) — for Linda and Gill 1993 Love is so forgiving Just a kiss, just a smile Thanks to you I'm living For a little while Sugar for my honey Tears for my sweet My love will only last forever And then it's time to eat Oh, it's all so intangible and gray I wonder what will become of me The day is dawning without any heat Wine-colored days It's not so bad Velvet-covered nights It doesn't last forever I haven't come to the end of it yet The light Somewhere terrific, terrible and strange Where I woke up With the back of my mind Living on fire It doesn't burn yet I tried to call, I turned to go I virtually considered a nervous breakdown That staggers the imagination in a rich display Ah! It's burning me! I made my decision. Then she called me back and asked me to come near. Sonnet for G. Then I fly Then I sing Then I do most anything Remember me if you like I want to take your tears away Maybe it's me standing by the window And you will hear my melody That will burst your sorrow Just you can find the way Watch how the stories unfold in every picture you hold Anew Picturing all the things you do Every color is alive In the night you see the oval moon Sonnet (Life would be much simpler) Life would be much simpler if you let me have my way I'm here to say Today I'm part of you, dear There's a rainbow before me That tender kiss Who cares where the melody wends A boy with no heart to give Captivated by your glory Innocently lurks Look at how the wind licks the ashes of its skin Basic lilting living I'm not motivated much anymore To say anything Brighter than that The Pink Pearl Everything has its place in the great race. Life's a gift, not a party. My heart goes where no one knows where the time goes. Who cares where it goes if our love grows hovering above A great pink pearl That's where you'll find me. |
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